Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs
The economic feasibility of maize flour and maize meal fortification in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia is assessed using information about the maize milling industry, households’ purchases and consumption levels of maize flour, and the incremental cost and estimated price impacts of fortification. Premix...
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| author | Fiedler, John L. Afidra, Ronald Mugambi, Gladys Tehinse, John Kabaghe, Gladys Zulu, Rodah Lividini, Keith Smitz, Marc-Francois Jallier, Vincent Guyondet, Christophe Bermudez, Odilia |
| author_browse | Afidra, Ronald Bermudez, Odilia Fiedler, John L. Guyondet, Christophe Jallier, Vincent Kabaghe, Gladys Lividini, Keith Mugambi, Gladys Smitz, Marc-Francois Tehinse, John Zulu, Rodah |
| author_facet | Fiedler, John L. Afidra, Ronald Mugambi, Gladys Tehinse, John Kabaghe, Gladys Zulu, Rodah Lividini, Keith Smitz, Marc-Francois Jallier, Vincent Guyondet, Christophe Bermudez, Odilia |
| author_sort | Fiedler, John L. |
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| description | The economic feasibility of maize flour and maize meal fortification in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia is assessed using information about the maize milling industry, households’ purchases and consumption levels of maize flour, and the incremental cost and estimated price impacts of fortification. Premix costs comprise the overwhelming share of incremental fortification costs and vary by 50% in Kenya and by more than 100% across the three countries. The estimated incremental cost of maize flour fortification per metric ton varies from $3.19 in Zambia to $4.41 in Uganda. Assuming all incremental costs are passed onto the consumer, fortification in Zambia would result in at most a 0.9% increase in the price of maize flour, and would increase annual outlays of the average maize flour–consuming household by 0.2%. The increases for Kenyans and Ugandans would be even less. Although the coverage of maize flour fortification is not likely to be as high as some advocates have predicted, fortification is economically feasible, and would reduce deficiencies of multiple micronutrients, which are significant public health problems in each of these countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1497852024-10-25T07:57:08Z Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs Fiedler, John L. Afidra, Ronald Mugambi, Gladys Tehinse, John Kabaghe, Gladys Zulu, Rodah Lividini, Keith Smitz, Marc-Francois Jallier, Vincent Guyondet, Christophe Bermudez, Odilia costs biofortification maize flour maize meal The economic feasibility of maize flour and maize meal fortification in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia is assessed using information about the maize milling industry, households’ purchases and consumption levels of maize flour, and the incremental cost and estimated price impacts of fortification. Premix costs comprise the overwhelming share of incremental fortification costs and vary by 50% in Kenya and by more than 100% across the three countries. The estimated incremental cost of maize flour fortification per metric ton varies from $3.19 in Zambia to $4.41 in Uganda. Assuming all incremental costs are passed onto the consumer, fortification in Zambia would result in at most a 0.9% increase in the price of maize flour, and would increase annual outlays of the average maize flour–consuming household by 0.2%. The increases for Kenyans and Ugandans would be even less. Although the coverage of maize flour fortification is not likely to be as high as some advocates have predicted, fortification is economically feasible, and would reduce deficiencies of multiple micronutrients, which are significant public health problems in each of these countries. 2014 2024-08-01T02:49:56Z 2024-08-01T02:49:56Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149785 en Limited Access Wiley Fiedler, John L.; Afidra, Ronald; Mugambi, Gladys; Tehinse, John; Kabaghe, Gladys; Zulu, Rodah; Lividini, Keith; Smitz, Marc-Francois; Jallier, Vincent; Guyondet, Christophe; and Bermudez, Odilia. 2014. Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1312(April 2014): 26-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12266 |
| spellingShingle | costs biofortification maize flour maize meal Fiedler, John L. Afidra, Ronald Mugambi, Gladys Tehinse, John Kabaghe, Gladys Zulu, Rodah Lividini, Keith Smitz, Marc-Francois Jallier, Vincent Guyondet, Christophe Bermudez, Odilia Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs |
| title | Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs |
| title_full | Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs |
| title_fullStr | Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs |
| title_short | Maize flour fortification in Africa: Markets, feasibility, coverage, and costs |
| title_sort | maize flour fortification in africa markets feasibility coverage and costs |
| topic | costs biofortification maize flour maize meal |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149785 |
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